Emily Barresi is from Greenwich, Connecticut. She is a fourth-year fine art photography student and is also working on a minor in art history. She will be graduating from RIT in May 2015. Her recent work explores relationships of material … Continue reading →

Jordan Burns is from Troy, New York. He received an associates degree in photography from Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York before transferring to RIT. He is a fourth year advertising photography student and will be graduating in December … Continue reading →

Seth Abel was born in Rome, New York. He is completing his fourth year at RIT and is studying advertising photography. Seth will be graduating December 2014. His work focuses on commercial still-life and narrative portraiture. Q: What was your … Continue reading →

Jordan Briscoe was born in North Syracuse, New York, in 1993. She is a fourth-year Imaging and Photographic Sciences major, specializing in Biomedical Photographic Communications. She and will be graduating from RIT in May 2015. Her work is based … Continue reading →

Students and the Photography School are very lucky to have a huge resource in the Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services. This office is driven by the simple mission: To provide effective, high-quality services to RIT students and … Continue reading →

Madison McKenna was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992. She recently graduated from RIT with a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration, majoring in Fine Art Photography. Her work involves collections in terms of memory and the autobiography, and stories that … Continue reading →

Photo by Sarah Ann Jump July 14-18, 2014 the fourth workshop for high school students was lead by Professor William Snyder. Similar to the others, day one was very successful. Sponsored in part by Nikon, the students had a very … Continue reading →

Willie Osterman is a professor of fine art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Willie has been teaching, researching and working as a professor and artist at RIT since 1984. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in … Continue reading →

RIT Photo Store expands its definition of imaging – and its business by Kevin Marks Very few Universities have a photography store right on their campus but RIT does. The RIT Photo Store faces similar challenges to any brick and … Continue reading →

Architecture Field Trip by Don Cochran At the end of April, the RIT architectural photography class went to Buffalo and Toronto. They had a wonderful tour of the interior Darwin Martin house ( Frank Lloyd Wright ) but were unable … Continue reading →

About Us

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences prepares students for a wide range of exciting careers in photography and the modern ever-changing field of imaging. Image making is taught through courses investigating methods and aesthetics required in pictorial and information-based images, videos, websites, and publications. Photography majors participate in a unique educational community, both in undergraduate and graduate studies. It is a community where students have the opportunity to work and study with our highly respected and accomplished faculty in state-of-the-art facilities with access to an unrivaled equipment lending resource called the Cage. For more than 100 years, #ritphoto has been dedicated to creative and professional enrichment, preparing students for distinguished careers as creative and innovative leaders.